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...Chita Rivera plays another 20/20 visionary in Bajour, which has been woven from Joseph Mitchell's New Yorker look at the city's swindling gypsies. The season's only imported musical will be Oh What a Lovely War, a savage but moving World War I satire directed by London's Joan Littlewood...
...talked anarchism in Barcelona cafés, argued with Lenin in Lausanne, published an anticlerical newspaper with a young socialist named Benito Mussolini. When the fire of Mexico's revolution was lit in 1911, Dr. Atl returned home to kindle his country's intellectuals. Diego Rivera, Jose Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros caught the blaze from him. Dr. Atl became Mexico's Fine Arts Minister, promptly shut down the Fine Arts Academy as too traditional. The plutonic painter, more than anyone, pointed Mexican art toward its folklore, its social fervor and its peppery expressionism...
MEXICO. The handsome pavilion is designed so that most of it can be viewed from couches and comfy basket chairs. From the ceiling sombreroed skeletons dangle drolly; paintings by Tamayo, Rivera, Velasco and Siqueiros are upstaged by a superb Orozco hung on the same wall a floor above the others. And outside the pavilion, the "Flying Eagles of Papantla" scale a 114-ft. pole four times a day and float back down to earth...
This large, crude, simple vision may be vaguely familiar to those who remember Paul Muni as Juárez, Wallace Beery as Pancho Villa, or Elia Kazan's Zapata, which had Judases aplenty and Marlon Brando on the same white horse that tourists can see in Rivera's mural in the National Palace. A novelist has more trouble than the makers of film epics. In this case, Fuentes has had to package the whole corpus of Mexican history into the dying body of a septuagenarian symbol named Artemio Cruz...
...SALVADOR: In 1961 opposition parties were thoroughly discouraged when President Julio Rivera's National Conciliation Party won all 54 seats in the legislature. They even boycotted the presidential election the next year. A reform-minded, military man, Rivera was embarrassed, promised an honest count on the basis of proportional representation for 1964. The opposition remained skeptical but campaigned vigorously through the tiny Central American republic. When the votes were tallied, Rivera's party retained 32 Assembly seats; the Christian Democrats took 14 seats plus the mayoralty of San Salvador, while another middle-of-the-road party...